{"product_id":"don-peake-the-hills-have-eyes-original-motion-picture-soundtrack","title":"Don Peake - The Hills Have Eyes (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 American horror film written, directed, and edited by Wes Craven.\u003cbr\u003eComposer Don Peake has recently revisited his score and this vinyl release presents the newly discovered and remastered original tapes from the film.\u003cbr\u003eIt follows the Carters, a suburban family targeted by a family of cannibal savages after becoming stranded in the Nevada desert.\u003cbr\u003eMade for only $230,000, the film has spawned may sequels and remakes and has gone on to become a cult classic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe remembers his work on the score and how this remarkable soundtrack was created:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I was immediately struck with the brutality of the characters, and I decided to create a sparse, and disturbing score utilising both acoustic instruments and a few experimental electronic instruments.\u003cbr\u003eI used \"The Blaster Beam\" - a long aluminium channel (About 10 feet) strung with a single wire.\u003cbr\u003eThe Player (Craig Huxley) would slide a piece of steel up the wire string creating a long Glissando.\u003cbr\u003eI also had the prop master deliver the bone necklaces that the actors wore in the movie to the scoring stage.\u003cbr\u003eI used these bones as shakers for the chase scenes.\u003cbr\u003eThe percussionists each had a necklace to play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe recorded all the music \"Live\" with absolutely no overdubs.\u003cbr\u003eThe tapes had been lost for many years.\u003cbr\u003eI just recently came upon them in my storage.\u003cbr\u003eI had my friend Ron Hitchcock \"bake\" the tapes for 10 hours, and then transferred them into the Pro Tools digital format.\u003cbr\u003eThis is the very first time that this music has been available to listen to.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePressed on classic black 140g vinyl with gatefold sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SILVA SCREEN","offers":[{"title":"Standard Black Vinyl","offer_id":53207609180487,"sku":"TRI-69192","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/a64b0426dbd50e4279242eb7ae967246.jpg?v=1769382167","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/don-peake-the-hills-have-eyes-original-motion-picture-soundtrack","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}